Conspiracy Theory

Complete silence met her question. The question raised here was about that streaky flash in the sky on the previous night. Unknown to them, a group of high quotient men huddled over a grey disc.
The field was growing cane, two months before their likely harvest. A large part was flattened and scarred. The disc was nearly 4 metres in diameter. It had unique grooves in its sides. The grooves reminded the huddled men about a closed intake on the engine cover of rear engineered Volkswagen.
Was this truly the day that Earth had its first light year distanced visitor? There was muted excitement within them. Possibilities grew in their minds of this discovery. The disc had covered the nine hectares out of thirty three. It had started out in nearly in the middle, cutting a path almost as big as itself. It rested partly rooted into the ground, with the other part strangely pointing to the sky.
It was like a strange clue to the direction it had arrived from. The men were busy with their pre-arranged activities. Like a crime branch of a police division, they were hacking into the disc’s strangeness.
The previous night, many skyward eyes noticed that burning light streak. Many silent, but a few reported it and a few more questioned it. A RAW team had arrived to check on it after the local authorities emphasized its strangeness. Surprisingly, the local policemen who first investigated were eerily quiet about it.
No media reported it, not ever. There was a brief mention in the papers of a sighting but the authorities played this one nicely and kept it out. But the scientists were all excited. The disk was of made of weapons grade plutonium. Just the quantum of mass of the disc made it possible to supply eleven tactical nuclear warheads.
It was many wakeless hours and yet, none of the brilliant minds could answer any of their own questions. And they had many. If it had come from another planet as its design suggested, then there was a planet with similar resources to that of ours. The design made it sure that it is not part of any known man made weapon or instrument.
The disc seemed to be strangely covered in a slimy plastic which protected its entry into the atmosphere. The minds could not also figure how to open the disc if indeed it could be. Over the next week, many Indian minds were consulted and yet, no answers.
The strange paradox was that no one questioned whether it was made on this very earth.
It was nearly three months and it was de-classified and made its rounds in the higher ranks of the defence personnel. The disc was commissioned to be added to the country’s uranium stockpile at the end of the year.. This would be its first addition of plutonium.
Flight Commander Kiran Majumdar heard this streak of light and this strange disk. He wanted to see this disc and went up to see his CO. He had served the country for thirteen years now. He had participated in many wartime exercises.
It was during one of these exercises, his memory recalled a disc similar to this description. The CO dismissed his doubts as meaningless but filed a report to his senior nonetheless. Within less than 3 weeks, Kiran got a summon from the RAW agency’s scientific wing. When he got there, he was shown numerous photographs. Some wrong and some correct, and yet he picked the correct photographs. In quiet awe, they directed Kiran the next day to the actual disc. It was sitting in a cold room atleast 6 floors below sea level. He positively identified it.
He had seen it on a plane in a hangar accidentally. It was attached specially to the belly of the jet and readying for taxi. The jet seemed to be part of some testing routine due to the large number of white coats that were present. He was on a routine training through the Russian company he was assigned to for nearly thirteen months. The last time he saw the disc was on an airbase just off the Mongolian border.
The base belonged to the Chinese.